'My Dad Died and I Don't Know Why I'm Not More Devastated!'

Grief is a long, unpredictable road.

Indefinite Divisibility (1942), Yves Tanguy

Dear Polly,

My dad died a few days ago, and I don’t understand why I’m not more devastated.

For years, I dreaded this. I remember dreading when I read about your father’s death. There was something about losing a parent that seemed like the edge of the world to me because I never experienced the death of a close …